Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 138
“Odds bobs, hammer and tongs I’m burning.”
Who acts: Odds bobs · What happens: be, burn
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Odds bobs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 ’m | punct |
| 2 | Odds | odd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bobs | compound |
| 3 | bobs | bob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ’m | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hammer | punct |
| 5 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bobs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tongs | cc |
| 7 | tongs | tong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bobs | conj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 ’m | nsubj |
| 9 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 ’m | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ’m | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 ’m | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does in a quote | present | Odds bobs and hammer and tongs | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | burn in a quote | gerund | Odds bobs and hammer and tongs not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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